Field Assistant Job in Kenya – NGO

Help a Child (HaC) is a Christian international NGO
specialized in community development with its headquarters in the Netherlands and active in Kenya as Help a Child
Africa (HACA) since 2009. Founded in 1968, HaC’s mission is to improve the
wellbeing of children living in poverty and crisis through supportive
communities.

Principal sources of income are child & family
sponsorship, foundations and institutional donors. HaC’s strategy is to empower
marginalized children, youth, parents and the broader community and other
stakeholders, mainly through a Self Help Group approach.

Main interventions are focused at early childhood
development, education, (agricultural) vocational training and economic
development, with special attention for the position of girls and women, and
children’s rights.

To provide secure and timely driving services to transport
HACA staff, support the Program Coordinator in field work and facilitate
organization of field workshops and visits.

Objective of the function

Responsible to the Program Coordinator – Gwassi for the
proper maintenance of assigned HACA vehicle; safe and timely delivery of HACA
staff and visitors, material supplies & correspondence to the designated
destinations within and outside Gwassi. The Driver will also double up as a
Field Assistant supporting the Program Coordinator with operational program
tasks and roles.

Place in the organization

The driver is responsible and accountable to the Program
Coordinator based in Gwassi

Roles

Agronomic Field Support

·Support in farmer farm visits.

·Assist with the monitoring of the
demo plots set up by the SMEs.

·Support in basic farmer GAP
trainings.

·Be familiar with the commodity &
asset tracking and management.

·Organise for the training venues,
take field photos, facilitate preparations for HACA workshops in the Lake
region.

·Integrity: Maintaining generally
accepted social and ethical standards in activities related to the function.

·Customer orientation: Investigating
the wishes and interests of clients and reacting accordingly. Anticipating the
interests of clients. Giving high priority to service preparedness and client
satisfaction.

·Cooperation: Actively contributing to
joint results, even when the subject involved is not of immediate personal
interest. Sharing information and knowledge with others.

·Planning and Organizing: Determines
goals and priorities effectively and indicates actions, resources, and time
needed to achieve particular goals.

·Judgement: Drawing right and
realistic conclusions based on available information.

·Decisiveness: Making decisions by
taking actions or committing himself to expressed judgments.

·Situational Awareness: Well informed
about social, political, and social developments and making effective use of
this knowledge for own function or organization.

How to Apply

Interested and qualified candidates are kindly invited to
send a cover letter (1 Page) and CV (Max 2 Pages) as one PDF document no later
than 24th November 2017 to vacancies@haca.org.

In your cover letter please reflect on your motivation for
wanting to become part of Help a Child, being a child centred and Christian
organization.

On the email subject, kindly quote the application reference:
“Field Assistant/Driver (REF 2017/005)” We regret that only shortlisted
candidates will be contacted.